No jargon, no buzzwords, no “contact sales to learn more.” This page walks you through every piece of ZipMarine the way you’d explain it on the dock — what each part does, and what it does for you.
Every module below runs on the same engine and talks to the others. A part logged in Inventory shows up when Maintenance needs it. An invoice from a vendor ties back to the job it paid for. That’s the point: one system, not ten apps taped together.
Walk aboard, know her status in five seconds. What’s overdue, what’s expiring, what’s low, what’s costing money — one screen, no digging.
For example“Genset service due in 12 hours. Two crew certs expire this month. Fuel filters: 1 left.”Service schedules tied to actual engine hours and dates, not a calendar guess. Log a job in under a minute, and the history builds itself.
For exampleHit 250 hours on the starboard main — the impeller swap shows up on your list before the impeller quits on you.Every engine, pump, genset, and winch aboard — make, model, serial, hours, and its full paper trail — in one searchable list.
For exampleMechanic asks for the raw water pump part number. You read it off your phone instead of crawling into the bilge with a flashlight.What’s aboard, how many, and which locker it’s in. Low-stock warnings before you’re holding a dead pump and zero spares.
For exampleOil change coming up? It already knows you have the filters but you’re two gallons short on 15W-40.Who’s aboard, what they hold, and when it expires. Licenses, medicals, STCW, drug-test dates — with warnings long before a lapse costs you a trip.
For exampleYour mate’s license expires in 60 days. You hear it from ZipMarine now, not from the Coast Guard later.Registration, insurance, survey, manuals, warranties — scanned once, found in seconds, expiry dates tracked automatically.
For exampleInsurance broker wants the survey. Thirty seconds on your phone, not a weekend in the garage with a file box.The yard period, the repower, the big job — broken into tasks with budgets, photos, and vendors, so nothing slips between visits.
For exampleMid-refit, you can answer “what’s left and what’s it going to cost?” without calling three people.Vendor quotes side-by-side, line by line. Spot the quote that’s padded before you sign it, and keep the history for next time.
For exampleTwo yards quote the bottom job. One’s $1,800 higher — and now you can see exactly which lines are doing it.Every bill tied to the vessel, the job, and the vendor. Know what she actually costs to run — by month, by system, by season.
For exampleTax time, or sale time: a clean, dated record of every dollar that went into the boat. Buyers pay for that.Hours, rates, and who did what — for deckhands, day workers, and contractors. No more napkin math at the end of the week.
For exampleTwo day workers, four days, different rates. The tally’s done before they’re off the dock.Here’s the part the others can’t copy. The AI isn’t a generic chatbot with a boat sticker on it — it’s loaded with YOUR vessel: your manuals, your service history, your machinery list, your spares. Ask it anything, in normal words, and it answers about your boat — not boats in general.
“What oil does the genset take?” “When did we last service the windlass?” “What did the port engine cost us last year?” It answers from your records, with the receipts to prove it.
It watches hours, history, and patterns and tells you what’s likely to need attention next — and which spares to have aboard before you leave the dock, not after something quits offshore.
Each vessel’s knowledge stays its own. The AI working your boat is trained on your boat — it isn’t guessing from somebody else’s data, and nobody else sees yours.
Nobody rewrites anything when you grow. The difference between a pontoon and a fleet is configuration — which modules are on, and who sees what. That’s it.
Most modules stay off. What’s left is a dashboard, simple service reminders, and a folder for the paperwork. Five minutes a month, and the boat stays sorted.
Same core, plus trip schedules, customer records, crew certs, and inspection paperwork. The boat earns; the office work mostly does itself.
Planned maintenance with a paper trail an auditor will accept, crew rotations and hours, and user roles so the deckhand sees tasks while the office sees money.
Every hull’s maintenance, spares, certs, and spend rolled up to one screen — and an AI that’s read every manual on every ship. Drill into any vessel in two clicks.
Boat work doesn’t happen at a desk. ZipMarine was built for the device you actually have on you when the question comes up.
Log the job, snap the photo, check the part number — one-handed, with the other hand on the wrench. If it takes more taps than that, we rebuild it.
The dashboard, the day’s tasks, the trip schedule — readable at arm’s length in sunlight, sitting right next to the chartplotter.
Reports, budgets, fleet rollups, comparing vendor quotes on a big screen. Same data the crew entered from the bilge an hour ago.
For a single boat: an afternoon, honestly. Add your vessel, photograph or upload your manuals and papers, and list the machinery — the AI reads it all and does most of the organizing. Commercial and fleet setups take longer because there’s more to load, and we help with those directly.
You do. Full stop. Your records, your manuals, your history — yours. Export everything whenever you want, and if you leave, you take it all with you. A maintenance history locked inside someone else’s software isn’t a maintenance history, it’s a hostage.
Then you’re who we built it for. If you can send a text message, you can run ZipMarine. There’s no training course and no manual — the most “technical” thing you’ll do is take a photo of a receipt. And if you get stuck, you can literally just ask the AI what to do, in plain words.
Yes, and it’s less painful than you think. Spreadsheets import directly. Records from other systems can be exported and brought over, and the AI is good at making sense of messy history — even the “Excel file plus a shoebox of receipts” kind. You don’t start from zero.
The AI works on your vessel’s data to answer your questions — that’s its whole job. But every vessel is isolated: your data is never shown to another customer, never blended into some shared pool, and never used to answer anyone else’s questions. Your boat’s knowledge stays on your boat.
Pontoon, sportfish, tug, or forty hulls — ten minutes and we’ll show you exactly what your screen would look like. No script, no pressure.